i expect to hear speaker boehner on tv tomorrow reiterate that the president is going with the my way or the highway, no real spending cuts approach. no mandate for that except it really isn't a my way or the highway, my way or the cliff's way. i've been pondering this, a little hollywood style. maybe it's a rebel without a cause moment. an actual loser in a game of chicken. the ceo realizes that the president, james dean, they are the other guy, the loser in the game of chicken, with their coats caught on the car door handle, trapped, and barrelling right over the cliff to a fiery death. good scene, good movie. bad ending. so what happens in the scenario when we go over the cliff? i loved today's glimpse before the short covering rally when we learned of the new meeting, first gold gets hammered, washington said inflation is really anti inflationary and the posturing won't change that. i want you out of the gold stocks and into precious metal. gld, etf, sell stocks now, buy later. and deals looking bad for oil and gas companies, because demand for energy will decline, particularly de